SAINT-SAËNS
Samson et       
Dalila

Kevin Courtemanche, New York City based tenor, is both honored and privileged to return to Hudson Opera Theatre, where he has performed in several productions under Maestro Ron De Fesi. Mr. Courtemanche has performed extensively in New York and New Jersey, with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, New Rochelle Opera, Hubbard Hall Opera, Vertical Player Repertory, Long Island Opera, North Shore Music Festival, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, New York Grand Opera, Garden State Opera, Operanauts and Opera at Florham, among others. Mr. Courtemanche is a member of the repertory company of Newark-based Trilogy: An Opera Company and has portrayed several white characters (including J. Edgar Hoover and John Hammond!) in historical African American-themed operatic works and Loge, Siegmund and both Siegfrieds in the Jonathan Dove edition of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Among his firsts, Kevin has essayed the roles of John Twist Sr. in the North American Premiere of Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain at New York City Opera and the Brigadier General in the World Premiere of Glass’ Appomattox at San Francisco Opera. With Hudson Opera Theatre, Kevin has played leading and secondary characters in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Gianni Schicchi, Cavalleria rusticana, Orpheus in the Under-world, Die Fledermaus, Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto. Kevin’s repertoire includes leading roles, such as Otello, Radamès, the Duke of Mantua, Don Carlo, Ernani, Manrico (Il trovatore), Alfredo (La traviata), Calaf, Mario Cavaradossi, Dick Johnson, Canio, Turiddu, Andrea Chénier, Mauri-zio, Don José, Faust, Hoffmann, Werther (cover), Siegmund, Bacchus, Aegisthus, Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Tamino and King Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Flor-estan in Fidelio, Future engagements in-clude Tundi Productions’ Wagner Festival in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he will perform the role of Froh (covering Loge) in Das Rheingold. He will also give a com-parative lecture recital of two adaptations of the German medieval epic Die Niebel-ungenlied. and will perform excerpts of Ernest Reyer’s Sigurd and Richard Wag-ner’s Götterdämmerung (August 2024).

Kathleen Reveille, mezzo-soprano, has been praised for her “soaring and poised” vocal ability. Most recently, Reveille was awarded second prize in the Premiere Opera Foundation/ NYIOP international vocal competition. Ms. Reveille is a twice-nominated recording artist for her perfor-mances with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Those performances include the Polish premieres of Britten’s The Turn of The Screw, and the double bill of Vaughn Williams’ Riders to The Sea; Holst’s At The Boars Head. (International Classical Music Awards, Best Opera Album of the Year, 2015. 2016.) In a review from Gramophone Magazine, “Kathleen Reveille, with her baleful, dark mezzo, is a near-ideal Miss Jessel.” In 2018 Ms. Reveille made her Carnegie Hall début as the mezzo soloist in Mozart’s Requiem; Cecilia Chorus of New York, as well as completing her first summer as an apprentice singer with the Santa Fe Opera, covering Zulma in L’Italiana in Algeri. In the summer of 2019 Reveille made her Santa Fe Opera stage début as the Mayor’s Wife in Jenůfa. Most recent roles include Maddalena (Rigoletto) and Flora (La Traviata) with the Hudson Opera Theatre. Reveille received a Master of Music from Yale University (2016), and a Bachelor of Music from Mercyhurst University; D’Angelo Opera Theatre (2014). Ms. Reveille adds the role of Dalila to her repertoire in Hudson Opera Theatre’s upcoming performances of Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila in April of 2024.

Jeffrey Goble, baritone, has been enter-taining audiences across the world with roles such as Giovanni (Don Giovanni), DC Public Opera; Conte Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), International Vocal Arts Insti-tute, Tel Aviv, Israel; Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Halifax Summer Opera, Canada; Pacific Opera Project, Pasadena, CA; Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), San Fran-cisco Conservatory; Escamillo (Carmen), Commonwealth Lyric Opera, Boston; Hudson Opera Theatre, NY; Pandolfe, (Cendrillon), Resonance Works, Pittsburgh, PA; Halifax; Utopia Opera, NYC; Schau-nard (La Bohème), Opera North, Lebanon, NH; Hudson Opera Theatre; Dandini (La Cenerentola), Bay View Music Festival, Mich.; Sweeney (Sweeney Todd), Bay Town, TX; Registrar/Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Keeper, (The Rake’s Progress), Music Aca-demy of the West, Santa Barbara, Chau-tauqua Institute; Melisso, (Alcina), San Francisco Conservatory Baroque; Tom Joad (The Grapes of Wrath), Moores Opera Center, Houston; Fiorello (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Music Academy of the West, and in Philip Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox, Utoptia Opera, NYC. He has performed solos in concerts with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Mineria, Mexico City; Israeli Chamber Orchestra, Tel Aviv; Dartmouth College, the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, Johnstown, PA, among others. Festivals include the Chautauqua School, Oberlin in Italy, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Hali-fax Summer Opera, and Music Academy of the West. His devotion to Art Song has led to performances as a recitalist inclu-ding Schumann’s Dichterliebe with the Carnegie Hall foundation and the Marilyn Horne Legacy series. B.M. Eastman School of Music; M.M., Moores School of Music, Houston, TX; Post-Graduate Diploma, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.